“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs – in religion, literature, colleges and schools – democracy in all public and private life…”
"We were together. I forget the rest."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"You are so much sunshine in every square inch."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him / They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."
- Walt Whitman
Awareness
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy